Method of cutting drawer-legs



J. P. WEIS- METHOD OF CUTTING DRAWER LEGS.

APPLICATION men MAY 28. 1920.

1,3?QQQL Patented 29,1921

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JOHN PETER VVEIS, OF NYACK, NEH YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 M'ETROPOL- ITAN SENING IVIACHINE CORPORATION, OF DOVER,

OF DELAWARE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN PETER \Vnis, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Nyack, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Cutting Drawer-Legs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of cutting drawer legs. The object of the invention is to convert a bolt of tubular knit goods during a lengthwise feeding movement of a flattened tube of such goods into a series of drawer legs, each having an integral body covering portion for the buttocks and abdominal region of the wearer. By this new method which I have devised, the cutting and seaming operations are combinedwith the intermediate step of separation so that at both or at eitherside of lengthwise cuts either continuous or discontinous seaming may be eiiected, as required, with out requirement of any subsequent wasteforming trimming. An object of the invention is to minimize the waste of goods in cutting drawer legs with integral body covering portions. The method also, in addition to the lengthwise cuts referred to and hereinafter described involves cross-cutting the goods to form a series of pairs of the drawer legs mentioned. While the present method can be most advantageously practised by use of cutting-and-sewing machines constructed for the purpose, yet it can be performed by hand if desired.

This application is a division of my application Serial No. 269,274, filed January 2, 1919.

The accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, illustrates a flattened tube, assumed to be a tube of tubular knit goods, cut and sewn by the present method; and showing a plurality of drawer legs, each with an integral body covering portion, not only transversely of but also lengthwise of the flattened tube; showing waste pieces formed during the conversion of the goods into the desired products.

In the drawing, D and D indicate drawer legs, each with an integral body covering; portion for the buttocks and abdominal regions. For economy of material, owing to the shape of the human figure, it becomes Specification of Letters Patent.

DELAWARE, A CORPORATION METHOD OF CUTTING DRAWER-LEGS.

Patented Mar. 29, 1921.

269,274. Divided and this application filed May 28, No. 384,962.

necessary to remove certain portions of the flattened tube between an ankle-forming end and the body-covering end of each laterally-opposed pair of sections such as D and D, into which the flattened tube is lengthwise divided by the generally bowshaped cut 2 extending through two continuouspairs of sections D and D each section forming a drawer leg with a bodycovering portion 3 at its upper end. The beginning of the cut at 2 is nearer the ad jacent corner 4: of the tube than the transversely opposite corner 5, the end between 4 and the cut 2 forming the ankle end of the right hand member or section D, and the end between 5 and the corner 5 forming the waist end of the right hand section or member D. In this case a supplementary out w parallel. to the folded side edges of the tube, is made between the cut 2 and the folded side edge beginning at the corner 5, the cut 00 intersecting the bowed out 2 at a point near the crotch-notch m and forming two superposedwaste pieces y which are removed from between the cut as and the cut 2. The crotch-piece notch 02 is shown in all four sections or members D and D and is recessed into the superposed cut edges of the sections. In machine operation where the goods are fed lengthwise in the right hand direction as indicated by the arrow in the drawing, all cutting including the crotchnotching is done progressively, a straight cut 00 each end of which intersects the cut 2, being formed parallel with the lateral folded edges of the tube, thus forming two superposed waste pieces 3 which subse quently maybe out transversely in two by the transverse cut-off or garment lengthdetermining cut at 9-9, thus forming at this stage of the operations four waste piecesindicated by y. At each side of the transverse cut-off at 9-9, adjacently thereto, the waist ends of the sections D are adjacent, and the ankle ends of the sections D are adjacent; and at the left-hand end of the tube, to be left of the cut-off line 9-9. each left-hand section D and D is formed with a crotch-piece notch m as already described in connection with the two sections D and D at the right-hand of the transverse garment-length-determining cut-ofl" at 9-9.

When in the cutting operations the lefthand end sections D and D are reached, the leg portion of the left-hand section D will be opposite the waist portion of the left hand section D, and another cut 00 will be formed between the folded side edges of the left-hand end of the tube parallel therewith and intersecting the bowed lengthwise-extending pattern cut 2 and extending to the left whereby two other waste pieces, such as y previously described, will be removed from between this left-hand cut as and the lefthand portion of the cut 2.

If desired, the two under and two upper waste pieces y, instead of being cut transversely in two, may be kept integral, making only two waste pieces instead of four to be removed at this portion of the work.

The crotch-piece notches in referred to, are convenient for use as guides in the subsequent finishing operations, for workmen, in locating the crotch-pieces of the underdrawers; each pair of under-drawers being formed by seaming one of the two cut edges, such for example as one of the cut edges of a section D formed by the cut 00 'to one of the two out edges of a section D formed by the out w; whereby the vertical hack seam of the pair of drawers is formed. The margins of the other two out edges formed by the cuts 50 and a will be provided, ordinarily, one with buttonholes and the other with buttons, but if drawers of the type known as bloomers are required, the four out edges formed by the cuts a and as will be seamed together forming the vertical back and vertical abdominal seams of the bloomers. During-the formation, or at another time, of the bow-shaped cut, the interior cut edges of the leg-forming portions proper of the sections D and D are each seamed as indicated by 8*, from the ankle end to near the crotch-piece-receiving notches if they are used, or to the indicated locations thereof, thus forming the two inside leg seams of each pair of drawers. Thus any desired sectionized lengths of a tube of knit goods may be formed into an opposed pair of drawer leg and body-coveringsections D and D, cut to shape. It is not necessary that each of the particular sections at one side of the transverse cutoff out at 9-9 be joined together in making up a pair of drawers, for one section of one transverse set of right sections D, D may be assembled with another section of the transverse set of left hand sections D and D; and in cutting-and-sewing machine operations such will often be the case. And in such cutting-and-sewing machine operations, whereby the present method is best practised, the cutting means will separate the goods, and the seams may be formed, and are in practice formed, simultaneously with the cutting, by two pairs of stitch-forming instrumentalities, such as a needle and a looper for examples in each pair of stitchforming instrumentalities. The seaming may be done in machine operations simultaneously with cutting, by sewing instrumentalities closely adjacent a cutter, the latter slightly separating the pair of cut edges on one side of a cut from the other pair of cut edges on the other side of a cut, and permitting the seaming to be done where it is required close up to the cut edges at which seaming may be required, so that no trimming waste will be thereafter involved.

It will thus be seen that in that formation of either merely out, or of cut and seamed drawer-legs, flattened tubular goods are progressively cut lengthwise to form along one side oi'ithat out a pair of drawer legs, each with a body covering portion, the waist ends of which are initially integral but which become adjacent and sep arated by the transverse cut-oft at line 9-9; and to form along the other side of such lengthwise cut, a pair of similar'drawer legs having their ankle ends initially integral but which become adjacent and separated by the said transverse cut-0E at line 9-9, as shown, and that in the production of drawer-legs with body portions as shown certain superimposed waste pieces y, y and y, y are formed and removed; there being additional lengthwise cuts as at w, m

and 00 00 I What I claim is:

1. The method ofconverting a length of tubular goods into cut-to-shape products of the character described for use in the manufacture of drawers comprising drawer legs having integral body covering portions, consisting in flattening tubular goods and thereby giving the goods two'folded edges; in cutting such flattened and folded tubular goods lengthwise between their folded edges, and thereby forming along one side of the lengthwise cut a plurality of cut-to-shape drawer legs each with an integral body covering portion, each successive pair of which I have the1r larger end portions 1n1t1ally 1ntegral, and simultaneously forming along the other slde of the lengthwise out another plurality of cut-toshape drawer legs each with an integral body covering portion, each successive pair of which latter products have their smaller end portions initially integral; in simultaneously, with the making of the lengthwise cut, stitching the lengthwise cut, superposed and laterally opposed cut edges of the leg forming parts of said products; in making between said folded edges other cuts which extend in the direction of the length of the folded goodsand which severally intersect the first mentioned cut, and form removable waste pieces between opposed cut edges of a body covering portion and cut and seamed edges of a leg forming portion of the goods.

2. The method of converting a length of tubular goods into cut-to-shape products of the character described for use in the manufacture of drawers comprising drawer legs having integral body covering portions, consisting in flattening tubular goods and thereby giving the goods two folded edges; in cutting such flattened and folded tubular goods lengthwise between their folded edges, and thereby forming along one side of the lengthwise cut a plurality of cut-to-shape drawer legs each with an integral body covering portion each successive pair of which have their larger end portions initially integral, and simultaneously forming along y the other side of the lengthwise cut another plurality of cut-to-shape drawer legs each with an integral body covering portion, each successive pair of which latter products have their smaller end portions initially integral; in simultaneously, with the making of the lengthwise cut, stitching the lengthwise cut, superposed and laterally opposed cut edges of the leg forming parts of said products; in making between said folded edges other cuts which extend in the direction of the length of the folded goods and which severally intersect the first mentioned cut, and form removable waste pieces between opposed cut edges of a body covering portion and cut and seamed edges of a leg forming portion of the goods in notching the cut edges of the legforming portions near the crotch piece receiving portion of the drawer leg portions of the product.

Signed at Nyack in the county of Rockland and State of New York this 11th day of May A. D. 1920.

JOHN PETER VVEIS. 

